"What of the hunting, hunter bold?"

"What of the hunting...?" is in one of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books. Check it out. It's good. (See here.)

Meanwhile, the hunting scene in Poul Anderson's "Honorable Enemies" is almost comical and could be presented as such, maybe in an animated cartoon:

the Terrans are, of course, human beings;

their hosts, the Betelgeuseans,are squat and blue but humanoid;

their fellow guests, the Merseians, are tailed and green but humanoid;

the Merseians' henchman, Aycharaych, is feathered instead of haired and golden-skinned but humanoid;

they hunt large, winged "dragons."

However:

the existence of even one humanoid alien race is improbable;
hunting is a Terrestrial pass-time;
dragons are a Terrestrial myth.

Thus, what we have here is essentially a Terrestrial scenario despite changed skin colours, extra body parts and exotic details like red mist drifting in through an open window of the Sartaz's palace.

Hunting is the Merseians' favourite sport. Also, in the revised version of the text, Flandry and Aycharaych wonder whether the ancestral Betelgeuseans had developed the dragons for sport, then designed the ecology around them.

On a more serious note, Aycharaych's people, the Chereionites, have full citizenship in the Merseian Roidhunate in the original but not in the revision. Anderson has increased the Merseians' racist supremacism. In the "earlier" alternative history, events could have diverged: other races, gaining prominence in the Roidhunate might have diluted or diverted its single-minded treatment of diplomacy as war by other means, with a different eventual outcome for the two empires.